Rust and Ransom

"I didnt come to save you. I came because the fire you started was the only thing keeping me warm."

Three months is a long time to watch someone. Long enough to learn her secrets, her routines, and the suffocating mask she wears as the mayors perfect daughter. Holden Cross didnt want Wren Gallagher; he wanted her fathers ruin. Taking her was supposed to be a simple, cold transaction—a $400,000 ransom to avenge a stolen ranch and a destroyed family.

But a massive, unyielding Montana blizzard traps them together in an isolated mountain cabin, shattering every plan. Wren isnt the fragile political pawn Holden expected. Shes brilliant, observant, and carrying dark secrets of her own about her fathers corrupt empire.

As the freezing days turn into weeks, the strict lines between captor and captive begin to blur. The hostility melts into a dangerous, undeniable attraction, and a fragile alliance is forged in the firelight. When Wren uncovers the devastating truth connecting her father to the tragedy that broke Holdens life, she must make an impossible choice: return to the golden cage of her former life, or burn it all down with the man who stole her away.